Trump Proclaims “Everlasting Peace” With China as Skeptics Wince
President ‘creates’ co-equal superpower by touting US-China “G2”
By: Toh Han Shih
US President Donald Trump has spread uncertainty among diplomats and analysts in a November 1 tweet in which he referred to his October 30 APEC meeting with President Xi Jinping of China as a “G2” event, thus conferring great-power status on Beijing in the face of years of attempts by Washington to downplay the country’s…
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